Sunday, May 11, 2014

Photo Challenge Pics

It's been awhile since I shared some Photo Challenge highlights (for newcomers- I belong to a Facebook Photo Group which takes a picture every day to match a prompt. We started using the Fat Mum Slim list but some months we swap out prompts for ones we like better). These shots are from the last couple of months.

Hip- as in Hip Roof, in Philipsburg, St. Maarten

Pin (Black Hills Gold)

Looks like a Number

Litter (in my own yard, no less)

Purple

State Bird (Ring Necked Pheasant- and lest you think I am some amazing nature photographer, the bird was taxidermied. It is a former pheasant. It has ceased to exist.)

Glass (paperweight from The Glass Eye in Seattle)
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What is it?

What it is (an amazing sculpture from the Dahl Art Center in Rapid City, SD. It's made of wire and spoons and forks and bits of cut metal. It's really beautiful)

Chair

Fresh (photo altered via BeFunky)

Photographer's Choice (when given a choice, I almost always go for the little barn)

Clarification : All foot measurements in the instructions are to be measured after the heel is finished. Measure the foot flap and gusset heel socks from the gusset edge, and measure the foot for short-row heel socks from the first full round after completing the heel.
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When you come upon instructions that say knit as for, referring you to a different pattern for the next step (for example, to the 40 stitch flap and gusset heel), knit that portion of your heel as you would for the referred pattern. In other words, knit it in the same manner, using the same short-row technique as in the referenced instructions. Knitting "as for" does not mean that you are to use the same number of stitches (which would be impossible, since only the 40 stitch heel uses forty stitches). Work the first two rows of your listed heel instructions, and then continue in the same manner as the 40 stitch flap and gusset heel (in other words, work one more stitch on each row, before doing the decrease and turn), until you have worked across all of the stitches.

Listen to the Knit Picks Podcast Interview

40 minutes of me blathering on and on while Kelly Petkun of Knit Picks asks some very good questions. Twice.

I Heart Felt

About The Free Pattern Downloads

You (individuals, not companies or corporations) may knit as many items from the Freebie Friday patterns (or any other original free patterns posted here) as you like. You may sell those items and make a bazillion dollars doing so. I would rather you didn't repost the pattern pages, or print them to hand out to others. Link to here so people can download their own copies, please. I would also prefer that you not teach the patterns as classes without contacting me first about it. Crediting the design and designer would also be nice.

I would love for people to send me jpgs of items knit from the Freebie patterns. I'll post them if any come in.

About Me

I'm a writer (6 mysteries, one mainstream novel, 5 knitting books, lots of designs and reviews, paper dolls, blather), wife, mother, and grandmother. I knit, I watch TV obsessively while I knit, I spin, I read, I listen to music, and I talk. A lot.